Former Black Panther announces bid for mayor
By Monica Moorehead
New York
Flanked by hundreds of enthusiastic Brooklyn
supporters and representatives from the New York Black
political movement, City Councilperson Charles Barron
officially announced his mayoral candidacy on the steps of City
Hall on Jan. 19. The election takes place in November 2005.
Barron announced his candidacy on the official holiday
honoring the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Barron spoke
about his candidacy to the cheering crowd by saying: "We
launched this movement in the name of Dr. King. We are calling
for a racially balanced, gender balanced ... structure in New
York City. ... We are developing a people's platform that we
are going to take across this city."
This platform includes free tuition for all City University
of New York students, freedom for all political prisoners,
economic development and job creation to battle poverty, real
affordable housing, reparations, quality health care, a cleaner
environment and much more.
Barron told his supporters that while his opponents may have
millions of dollars at their disposal, he has a movement behind
him, especially Black people.
Barron is a longtime political activist and a former member
of the Black Pan ther Party. He is currently helping to lead a
campaign to keep the 2004 Repub lican National Convention out
of New York City, in protest of the Bush administration's
racist occupation of Iraq at the expense of mass unemployment
and cuts in social programs at home.
For more information on the Barron campaign, call (718)
303-9590.
Reprinted from the Jan. 29, 2004, issue of
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